It was a pleasant, unassuming country town, built on rolling hills at the head of navigation on the Alabama River, sheer bluffs rising from the water front, open marsh and meadowland stretching away on the far side of the stream. From the top of the bluffs Main Street, wide and sandy, went inland half a mile to the highest of the modest hills, where the white columns of a Greek revival capitol building rose as a landmark; a correspondent wrote that although the building was not particularly impressive, it nevertheless dominated the city, and he felt that it “stared down the street with quite a Roman rigor.” There were shaded streets with fine residences, and a reporter for the New Orleans Delta enthusiastically reported that these showed “much architectural skill and beauty,” with lawns and gardens and shrubbery “arranged in such order as to impress the beholder that these are the bodes of wealth, taste and refinement.”1 Montgomery, in short, was eminently suited to the part it had been playing—capital of a prosperous rural state, trading and commercial center for a thriving agricultural area.
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